Why was the Bay of Pigs a failure?

Answer 1

Because they didn't expect the Cubans to be ready for the exiles, and they Cuban exiles didn't have any air support.

The plan put forward by the CIA was also not right, it failed to consider support for Castro, the strength of Castro's army and many things went wrong for the exiles on the day of invasion.Kennedy can be blamed too for giving the plan the go ahead!

Answer 2

The Cuban Nationals (Native to that country) were armed with small arms by the US. When landing on their home soil, someone or something tipped off Castro's men. The US air support was cancelled, and the Nationals were rounded up by Castro's men.

Answer 3

The bay of pigs invasion was the US' response to Castro setting up a Dictatorship in Cuba. The US persuaded Cuban refugees to train and go over and invade Cuba and try to take down Castro. The Bay of Pigs was a huge fiasco because information was leaked to Cuba about the invasion and they slaughtered the US in the bay.

Answer 4

The problems with the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba were mostly due to stupidity and a lack of concern about the lives of 1300 Cuban exiles.

Dwight Eisenhower and then John Kennedy displayed extreme callousness and utter stupidity in this invasion simply because they thought they would score a "cheap trick" in overthrowing Fidel Castro's government. They either believed, or hoped, that a handfull of untrained civilians with no support could defeat a trained army and thus overthrow this government, and they were proven embarrassingly and ridiculously wrong.

Fortunately most of the Cuban expatriates were eventually returned to the United States (through the efforts and ransom money of private individuals) but this, of course, was little consolation to the families of the hundred or so who died in the ridiculous adventure. It was a huge embarrassment to the Kennedy government who still managed to grin all the way through it.

In any case, while Mr. Kennedy and the rest of his crew stood rah-rah-ing safely at the Whitehouse door, the 1300 Cubans boated into Bahía de Cochinos thinking they would be joined by the other 10 million inhabitants of the island, most of whom had no interest or experience in overthrowing governments, and most of whom were quite happy with their government, or were busy putting their kids through school while trying to keep up the car payments and mortgages.

In the end, after being held prisoner for some period of time, the 1300, or now 1200, attackers hopefully realized they were a bunch of hubristic idiotic misfits who were suckered in by two government leaders, and that their 10 million compatriots disagreed with them.

Answer 5

After 3 days of fighting, the under-equipped Cuban exiles were killed or captured, and Castro castigated the US as warmongers. The immediate effect was that it embarrassed the US and reinforced the image of Kennedy as a young and inexperienced leader.

In an indirect way, it may have saved us all. The plan was formulated by Eisenhower but he left office before it was executed. When Kennedy arrived in Washington it was presented to him as something already approved by Eisenhower, the older more experienced leader, and he was pressured by his generals to allow it to proceed.

The generals knew that the plan as outlined would fail. They knew they needed more troops to succeed but also knew that Kennedy would likely call it off rather than expand it. They withheld their predictions so that Kennedy would not cancel it thinking that when defeat was imminent he would have no choice but to authorize more troops. Instead, Kennedy let it go down as a defeat and took the embarrassment.

In 1962, when the US learned that the Russians were building nuclear missile launch sites in Cuba (the "Cuban Missile Crisis") those same generals advised Kennedy to bomb and invade Cuba before the Russians could put warheads within striking distance of US soil. After the crisis was resolved with a blockade rather than open conflict, Kennedy told friends that if it had not been for his Bay of Pigs experience he might have trusted the generals and followed their advice.

Some 50 years later, declassified documents revealed that the Russians had already succeeded in building nuclear missile sites in Cuba and that the order had been given to launch them in the event of an invasion. So if it had not been for the Bay of Pigs there is a good chance that the Cuban missile crisis would have resulted in nuclear warheads being launched on the US, triggering the start (and maybe the finish) of World War III.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Basically it was poorly planed and under supplied.

Answer 8

The Cuban regime under Fidel Castro had intelligence of the attack before it happened, and were ready when the attack came.

Answer 9

it was seen as an embarrassment.

the US was caught deceiving the United Nations. 114 invaders died 157 Cuban soldiers were killed and 1189 invaders were taken prisoner.